ElementaryLevel
1A
•Sentencesnotrelatedtoeachotherand/ornotrelatedtotopic
(Foundations) •Seriousdifficultieswithbasicspellingandtheformationofletters
•Blankpageorlanguagecopieddirectlyfromthetopicsheet
•Unintelligiblephrases
1B
•Sentencesdorelatetothetopicinsomeway
(Elementary) •Lacksmasteryofsimplesentencepatterns(SVOwithS-Vagreement)
•Repetitionofverysimplevocabulary
•Sentencesungrammaticalbutsomewhatintelligible
IntermediateLevel
2A
•Topicnotsuccessfullydividedintonon-overlappingsub-points
(Intermediate) •Lacksoverallsuccessfulparagraphstructure
•Anumberofdifferentideasrelatingtothetopic
•Someattemptatsentencecomplexity(connectedclauses,multi-wordphrases)
2B
•Topicsomewhatsuccessfullydividedintonon-overlappingsub-points
(High
•Severalelementsofsuccessfulparagraphstructurepresent
Intermediate) •Attemptatusingavarietyofvocabularytoexpressideas
•Atleastasmalldegreeofgrammaticalaccuracyandsentencecomplexity
AdvancedLevel
3A(Advanced)•Oneormoremeaningfulparagraphscontainingmainpointsandlimitedrelevantsupport
•Attemptatvarioustypesofsentencecomplexity
•Someprecisevocabulary
•Seriousgrammarerrorsstillobstructreadabilitytosomedegree
3B* •Aclearobjectivewithmainpointsandlimitedrelevantsupport
(Pre-Academic) •Somecontrolofsophisticatedgrammaticalstructuresandsentencecomplexity
•Somesuccessfultransitionalwordsandphrases
•Significantgrammarerrorsstillobstructreadabilitytosomedegree
4* •Clearobjectivewithwell-organizedmainpointsandmultiplesupportingdetails
(12-hour
•Sufficientcontrolofcomplexgrammaticalstructures
Bridge)
•Someacademicvocabulary
•Localerrors,suchaswordformandverbform,detractfromreadability
BridgeProgram
BridgeLevels
AdvancedLevel
IntermediateLevel
ElementaryLevel
OPIECompositionRubric
Findthecategorythatisthebestfitforthecomposition.Notalldescriptorsneedtomatchexactly.
Category
Descriptors
5* •Useofcorrectacademicregisterwithoccasionallapses
(8-hourBridge) •Maintainsconsistenttimeframesthroughappropriateuseofverbtenses
•Complex,sophisticateddevelopmentofideas
•Occasionallanguagedifficultiesstilladistraction
6*
(Full-time
Academic)
•Ideasmaystillneeddevelopment,butlanguageitselfnotasignificanthindrance
•Contentisclearandisnotobstructedbylanguagedifficulties
•Accurate,effectiveuseofacademicvocabularyandcomplexsentencestructures
•Occasionalsurfaceerrorscomeasasurpriseamidotherwisesmoothwriting
*GraduatestudentswhoearnaCompositionscoreofatleast3BandaTOEFLscoreof525-549,oraCompositionscore
ofatleast4andaTOEFLscoreof500-524,areeligibletoadvancetoELIP.Undergraduatestudentswhoearna
Compositionscoreof5andaTOEFLscoreofatleast525(or550forBusinessmajors)havecompletedtheirEnglish
languageproficiencyrequirementsandareeligibleforENGD160.UndergraduatestudentswhoearnaComposition
scoreof6andaTOEFLscoreofatleast525(or550forBusinessmajors)havecompletedtheirEnglishlanguage
proficiencyrequirementsandareeligibleforENG1610.
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